- The job market is booming, but experts say there won’t always be an abundance of jobs.
- As many as 96.2% of graduates from these 50 universities find themselves employed 10 years after graduation.
- Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech made the list for best colleges for employability – see if your school did as well.
Recent graduates are entering one of the best job markets in decades, but economists say that cheery circumstance won’t last forever.
Almost all graduates of these 50 colleges across the country find jobs.
Career site Zippia used data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and CollegeScoreCard to find the schools in each state where the highest percentage of graduates had full-time jobs 10 years after graduation. Note that type of job or salary was not specified, only whether or not graduates were employed.
The best college nationwide for job placement is Lebanon Valley College in Annvile, Pennsylvania. It has a 96.2% placement rate. Here are the 49 other best schools for the post-graduate job hunt.
Alaska
College: Alaska Pacific University
Placement rate: 84.7%
Alabama
College: Auburn University
Placement rate: 90.7%
Arkansas
College: University of Arkansas for Medical Services
Placement rate: 92.5%
Arizona
College:Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott
Placement rate: 92.0%
California
College:University of the Pacific
Placement rate: 92.2%
Colorado
College:Colorado School of Mines
Placement rate: 89.9%
Connecticut
College:Quinnipiac University
Placement rate: 95.2%
Delaware
College:University of Delaware
Placement rate: 94.8%
Florida
College:Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Placement rate: 92.0%
Georgia
College:Georgia Tech
Placement rate: 92.9%
Hawaii
College:Hawaii Pacific University
Placement rate: 87.7%
Iowa
College:Drake University
Placement rate: 94.7%
Idaho
College:The College of Idaho
Placement rate: 90.6%
Illinois
College:Millikin University
Placement rate: 93.7%
Indiana
College: University of Notre Dame
Placement rate: 94.5%
Kansas
College:Kansas Wesleyan University
Placement rate: 91.8%
Kentucky
College:Georgetown College
Placement rate: 92.5%
Louisiana
College: Xavier University of Louisiana
Placement rate: 93.4%
Massachusetts
College:Endicott College
Placement rate: 95.3%
Maryland
College:Mount St. Mary's University
Placement rate: 94.0%
Maine
College: University of New England
Placement rate: 92.9%
Michigan
College: Kettering University
Placement rate: 95.1%
Minnesota
College: University of St. Thomas
Placement rate: 94.4%
Missouri
College: Saint Louis University
Placement rate: 93.5%
Mississippi
College: University of Mississippi
Placement rate: 92.9%
Montana
College: Montana State University
Placement rate: 90.0%
North Carolina
College: Elon University
Placement rate: 94.0%
North Dakota
College: University of Mary
Placement rate: 94.7%
Nebraska
College: Nebraska Wesleyan University
Placement rate: 95.2%
New Hampshire
College: Keene State College
Placement rate: 93.6%
New Jersey
College: Stevens Institute of Technology
Placement rate: 94.5%
New Mexico
College: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Placement rate: 88.0%
Nevada
College: University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Placement rate: 87.3%
New York
College: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Placement rate: 95.5%
Ohio
College: Ohio Northern University
Placement rate: 95.5%
Oklahoma
College: Southern Nazarene University
Placement rate: 89.2%
Oregon
College: Oregon Health and Science University
Placement rate: 95.5%
Pennsylvania
College: Lebanon Valley College
Placement rate: 96.2%
Rhode Island
College: Salve Regina University
Placement rate: 95.9%
South Carolina
College: The Citadel
Placement rate: 93.7%
South Dakota
College: University of Sioux Falls
Placement rate: 95.4%
Tennessee
College: Vanderbilt University
Placement rate: 91.6%
Texas
College: McMurry University
Placement rate: 92.9%
Utah
College: Westminster College
Placement rate: 87.8%
Virginia
College: Virginia Tech
Placement rate: 93.6%
Vermont
College: Saint Michael's College
Placement rate: 94.2%
Washington
College: Pacific Lutheran University
Placement rate: 91.9%
Wisconsin
College: University of Wisconsin - Platteville
Placement rate: 95.3%
West Virginia
College: Bethany College
Placement rate: 94.2%
Wyoming
College: University of Wyoming
Placement rate: 88.7%